ANDREA WILLIS – POLE VAULT Junior Andrea Willis will make her first appearance at the NCAA Indoor Championship, but earned a trip to the 2018 Outdoor Championship and went on to receive an All-America Honorable Mention nod in the pole vault. The Colorado Springs, Colorado native vaulted a career-best 4.37 meters (14-4…
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Kansas track & field picked up two wins at the Arkansas Qualifier at Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas on Friday. Along with the two wins, the Jayhawks recorded 10 personal-bests at the meet. The first win of the day came from senior pole vaulter Alexis Romero.…
LAWRENCE, Kan. – Kansas pole vaulters Hussain Al Hizam and Zach Bradford highlighted the Kansas track & field action on Saturday at the Jayhawk Classic, as the pair broke the Anschutz Sports Pavilion facility record on their way to finishing first and second, respectively, in the event. Bradford, a freshman from Bloomington, Illinois, came into…
LAWRENCE, Kan. – The Kansas track & field men’s team was ranked No. 11 in the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association week one national rating index, released by the organization on Tuesday. The Kansas women’s team came in at No. 29 in the week one rankings. Over…
Al Hizam looks to defend his crowns Coming off a 2018 indoor track & field season that saw Hussain Al Hizam win a Big 12 title and NCAA Championship in the pole vault, the senior will look to defend his titles in 2019. Not only did he win both the Big 12 and NCAA Championships, but…
After winning an NCAA indoor pole vault title in March, Kansas junior Hussain Al Hizam tied for fifth at the NCAA outdoor championships on Wednesday at Oregon’s Hayward Field. Al Hizam cleared 5.45 meters to become the first Jayhawks to earn all-America honors at the four-day meet, which will run…
The college season for Vaulter Magazine is over, and we will move on to the Coaches and legends of the sport of pole vaulting. For the first time, we will highlight the coaches only on the cover of Vaulter Magazine. Pole Vault news, “Mondo’s Swedish Indoor Record, Men’s Pole Vault…
BLOOMINGTON — As one of the nation’s best high school pole vaulters, Zachery Bradford spends a lot of time looking for spots to launch himself skyward. Usually, it’s a box to plant his pole at the end of a runway. Most recently, it was Kansas University, the school where the Bloomington…
HENDERSON, Ky. — Jordan Scott had to build the suspense before he set a meet record in Saturday night’s Jammin’ and Jumpin’ Street Vault, and Mary Saxer took a relaxed approach to claim another “big” check from the event. Scott, the 2010 NCAA pole vault champion from Kansas University, had to…